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How to tell if someone is lying in seconds: Body language pro spills his secrets - and the 'red flag' words to listen for
A body language and behaviour expert has revealed how to tell if someone is lying to you by looking out for specific, and often subtle, signs.
Scott Taylor said there are a number of facial cues that may indicate a person is not being truthful including 'blink spiking', touching their face, flushed cheeks and unusual eye movements.
The 51-year-old added there are also a number of giveaways in the language people use that could hint they're fibbing, such as using expanded contractions and assuming language.
Scott has trained with the head of the FBI and the lead interrogator at Guantanamo Bay learning about 'body language, facial micro-expressions, deception detection, influential behaviours and statement and word analysis' and has worked in safety, security and risk for almost 30 years.
He told FEMAIL that while each 'subconscious' sign may not individually be an indication someone is lying, a combination of several is something to look out for.
Body language and behaviour expert Scott Taylor (left) has shared the subtle and obvious signs people 'subconsciously' display when they're lying
'There's no single indicator of deception but the combination of body language and some of the words give us some really big indicators,' he said.
Two 'really obvious signs' of deception according to Scott are 'blink spiking', 'lip licking' and 'hard swallowing'.
'We blink 12 to 14 blinks per minute, and people under stress and duress, their blink rate spikes,' he said.
'What we also see is lip licking and hard swallowing. When people lie we release cortisol, the stress hormone, and it dries out our mouth and slows down our saliva.'
Scott said people also 'subconsciously' touch 'along the lines of their face' like on their cheekbones when lying.
They also protect their 'power zones' like their chin, belly button and groin.
'They dip their chin or angle their body slightly away to remove your access to that ventral area so that becomes quite obvious once you look for that,' Scott said.
Scott explained everyone lies in their day-to-day life with partners telling fibs to each other in one out of every ten interactions and that not all lies are malicious.
'It's different things, how much something cost, what time I'm going to be home, 'I've cleaned that up' when you haven't, 'I'm leaving now' when you're not,' he said.
'The majority of lies is through omission not through creating lies.'
Lip compression and blushing are another potential signal someone is being disingenuous.
'Under stress, you get a bit of an adrenaline dump and that causes your blood-carrying elements to expand so more blood comes closer to the surface, that's why you see some flushing as well,' Scott said.
'You also get things like lip compression and pulling as well, you see that with the politicians a lot when they're stretching some of the words they're going to use.'
If someone is spinning a web of lies, Scott said it's easier to pick up as their eye movements change.
'By creating elements people will go to a different eye referencing point when they're creating content. It's harder for them to store things in order as well,' he said.
Scott explained we have two types of memory; episodic which is what you've experienced and semantic which is what you know.
'When I ask you a question like, 'Where did you park your car?' Or What's the fifth word of the National Anthem?' Or 'What's on the back of a $2 coin?' Your eye will go to a certain point naturally,' he said.
'When we're having interactions with people, once you know what that point is, if you ask them something and they go to a completely different point and see any of those other indicators and slightly changed speech pattern as well that's a higher indicator of deception and these things become really obvious.'
The 51-year-old added there are also a number of giveaways in the language people use that could hint they're fibbing like using expanded contractions and assuming language
Certain language clues can give away if someone is being deceitful too.
'Truth tellers convey and liars convince so you don't need to say, 'I'm 100 per cent definite' or 'certain' if you are definite or certain,' Scott said.
'These people are selling not telling so they give you additional filler or additional eye contact because they think, "I want to be more convincing".'
Scott added that people use expanded contractions when they lie, something Bill Clinton did in the 90s when he lied about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
'We knew Bill Clinton had lied because he said, 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman'. The word 'didn't', he would use regularly but when somebody expands a contraction to 'I did not' that's a really strong deceptive indicator,' he said.
'Then they throw in a word like 'that' - I did not have sexual relations with 'that' woman. He's distancing himself. "This" is close, "that" is distanced.'
Another verbal telltale is when a person uses 'assuming language' dropping in a lot of things like 'you know' and 'obviously' to make themselves sound more convincing.
'We look for congruency in their words and actions,' Scott said.
'Whether it's in an interview, a personal relationship or you're watching Married at First Sight, when people say words and their body language and gestures don't align with that, that would be the most overt and strongest indicators of deception.'